In addition, he was a prominent force in healing the wounds between the North and South and bringing peace to a fractured nation.

"[1] Andrew Cowan was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on September 29, 1841, and he migrated to the United States as a boy.

[2] She bore a son, Albert Andrew Cowan, in August 1867 but she died the following month, most likely from complications from childbirth.

[4] The 1st New York Battery was recruited by Capt Terance J. Kennedy, mostly in Cayuga County, beginning on October 18, 1861.

[4] Officially designated the 1st New York Battery three days later, it was assigned to BG William F. Smith's division of the Army of the Potomac in January 1862.

In reserve at first, on July 3, 1863, it was placed just south of the copse of trees on Cemetery Ridge, in time to resist Pickett's Charge.

[7] A newspaper account reported that Capt Cowan served in a gun crew at the height of the assault.

The battery served in the VI Corps Artillery Brigade in the Overland Campaign and in the earliest stage of the Siege of Petersburg.

Cowan served briefly in XXII Corps from December 1864 until it rejoined the Army of the Potomac on January 25, 1865.

Cowan, who had received the brevet rank of major, took command of the Artillery Brigade when Col Charles H. Tompkins was assigned to other duties.

Two divisions of VI Corps attacked the Confederate rear guard, under Ltg Richard S. Ewell, at about 6:00 PM.

Andrew Cowan left the volunteer services as a brevet lieutenant colonel, this promotion dated April 9, 1865.

Cowan also served on the committee that raised funds for the erection of the Statue of Liberty as the city's representative.

[14] In 1900, he was a member of a Kentucky delegation that visited the White House to discuss problems in the state with President William McKinley.

It was Cowan who first invited Olmsted, the renowned landscape architect, to Louisville and who secretly coached the firm on how to price their work in order to win the bid....

[17] Cowan was close with Confederate survivors in Kentucky, who named him an honorary member of their Orphan Brigade in 1912.